Guardian: The Foreign Office is to risk the wrath of homophobic regimes worldwide by encouraging British ambassadors to do more to support gay communities.
Chris Bryant, the new Foreign Office minister, who is gay, has started writing personal letters of congratulations to British diplomats who show public support for gay rights. He is praising them for [...]
Entries Tagged as 'International'
Gay lobby wants to decide foreign politics and religion
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Tags: International · Politics · Society
Life of the white minority in the Republic of South Africa and Zimbabwe
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Poor Whites/Rich Blacks – South Africa – follow the link, embedding disabled
Tags: Asides · History · International · Multiculturalism · video
Queen’s Trinity Cross medal offensive to Muslims and Hindus
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Dailymail: A medal personally established by the Queen is being withdrawn after it was deemed offensive to Muslims and Hindus.
The honour – known as The Trinity Cross of the Order of Trinity – has been ruled unlawful and too Christian.
It has been awarded to 62 distinguished residents of the former colony of Trinidad and Tobago [...]
Tags: History · International
A team in London guides Somali pirates
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Guardian.co.uk: Document obtained by Spanish radio station says ‘well-placed informers’ in constant contact by satellite telephone
Giles Tremlett in Madrid
The Somali pirates attacking shipping in the Gulf of Aden and Indian Ocean are directed to their targets by a “consultant” team in London, according to a European military intelligence document obtained by a Spanish radio station.
The [...]
Tags: Immigration · International
The extermination of Zimbabwe’s wild life continues
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Yet another case of what seems to be a government-administrated slaughter of wild life in Zimbabwe, has occurred. On the 7th of November three black rhinos were shot to death by poachers on Imire Safari Ranch about an hour’s car ride from the capital Harare. One of the rhinos was pregnant and due to give [...]
Tags: Fraud and corruption · International
Without Honour – A Story from Rhodesia and Zimbabwe
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“Fuck off! You fucking racist! Get yourself out of my country!” To Robb WJ Ellis, a young white recently appointed policeman in Zimbabwe just after Robert Mugabe’s accession to power, it was soon made clear what the new potentates thought of him. At the same time that Mugabe was being lauded by much of the [...]
Tags: International · Politics
British retirees in France lose free health care
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Thousands of Britons who have taken early retirement and moved to France are to lose free health care under radical reforms introduced by France’s new president.
In his drive to kick-start the French economy by creating a culture of hard work, Nicolas Sarkozy believes those who chose to retire early – under 65 – should not [...]
Tags: International
Immigration is changing rural England life
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Britain’s face is changing. More than half of all babies born in London last year were the children of foreign-born mothers. Across England and Wales, the figure was approaching a quarter.
Recent polls, including the Ipsos Mori political monitor, last month, have put immigration at number one in the public’s list of concerns. This used to [...]
Tags: International
Mugabe says military refused UK coup bait
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President Robert Mugabe said on Wednesday that Zimbabwe’s military had rejected British encouragement to stage a coup and warned his government would press ahead with a price blitz that has left shop shelves empty.
Mugabe, in power since independence from Britain in 1980, also mocked one of his critics, Roman Catholic Archbishop Pius Ncube, saying he [...]
Tags: International
Russia blocks UK extradition plea
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Russia has officially refused a UK extradition request for Andrei Lugovoi, the prime suspect in the murder of Russian ex-spy Alexander Litvinenko.
The Russian Prosecutor General’s Office said the constitution did not allow for the extradition of its citizens.
However, it said it would consider the possibility that Mr Lugovoi could be put on trial [...]
Tags: International
UK visa fees up 180 percent
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ZIMBABWEANS wishing to travel to the United Kingdom will have to dig deeper into their pockets following massive increases in the visa fees by the British Embassy.
The British Embassy increased its fees by between 115 and 180 percent in a move that is likely to affect thousands of Zimbabweans intending to travel to the UK.
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Opium: Iraq’s deadly new export
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[I am sure Saddam would have been able to stamp out this drug situation-ed]
Farmers in southern Iraq have started to grow opium poppies in their fields for the first time, sparking fears that Iraq might become a serious drugs producer along the lines of Afghanistan.
Rice farmers along the Euphrates, to the west of the [...]
Tags: International
Malasian ex-PM says Blair worse than Saddam
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PUTRAJAYA, Malaysia (Reuters) – U.S. President George W. Bush and Prime Minister Tony Blair are war criminals with more Iraqi blood on their hands than Saddam Hussein, former Malaysian premier Mahathir Mohamad said on Monday.
Mahathir, one of the developing world’s most strident and veteran critics of the West, launched a shrill attack on Bush and [...]
Tags: International
Race boss claims EU migrants are bigots
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[What about the thousands of racist Turks, Kurds, Soimalias who hate white people who come here?-ed]
Thousands of white immigrants from eastern Europe are deeply racist, the head of the race relations watchdog has warned.
Speaking about the tensions in British communities, Trevor Phillips said many arrivals from former Soviet countries displayed prejudice against black people. [...]
Tags: International
Mau Mau to sue British government
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[Strange how they are called freedom fighters and iraqi fighters are called terrorists-ed]
Victims of Kenya’s independence war with Britain 50 years ago are to start proceedings to claim compensation from the British government.
Veterans of the Mau Mau – who fought a guerrilla war with their colonial masters – are demanding an apology and an [...]
Tags: International
Israeli Embassy Pink With Gay Pride
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The Israeli Embassy in Paris has been dubbed “the pink embassy” by Foreign Ministry officials.
The nickname was awarded to the embassy after it was revealed that two of its employees are in same-sex relationships and are recognised as ‘married’ couples by the Foreign Ministry.
Perhaps surprisingly, the Israeli Foreign Ministry is considered one of the [...]
Tags: International
British tourist killed in Jordan
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A gunman has opened fire on a group of foreign tourists in the Jordanian capital Amman, killing a British man.
The shooting happened at the Roman amphitheatre, a popular attraction.
Five other tourists were injured – two British women as well as tourists from New Zealand, the Netherlands and Australia. The gunman was arrested.
Militants [...]
Tags: International
BT to double workforce in India
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[There goes the call centre jobs-ed]
Telecom giant BT aims to double its workforce to 24,000 in India and grow revenues over the next three years.
“We expect revenues from India to reach a quarter of a billion dollars” from less than $100m today said Andy Green, the firm’s chief executive.
The news came as shares [...]
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Gerry Adams at pro immigration demo
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What sort of Irish patriot supports mass non-Irish immigration into Ireland?
Video Below:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1yJ87y7BR80
Tags: Immigration · International
Polish paper links falling crime to emigration
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A leading Polish newspaper has carried a report which linked the country’s falling crime figures with the fact that troublemakers are leaving to work abroad.
In the first half of this year there were 4,500 fewer crimes reported.
The chief prosecutor in Krakow has put the trend down to the type of people who are emigrating, [...]
Tags: International